The Palestinian Relief Bundle is live now! Get games like A Short Hike, Anodyne, Coffee Talk, Wandersong, Zero Ranger, They Bleed Pixels - and more indie work for $8. All proceeds go to the PCRF.
Fundraising goal as of writing is $100,000. Can we smash it within the next week?
Update: if you need help organising through the bundle contents, try out this website! You can filter by Steam / non-Steam games, BIPOC creators, popularity and more.
Some personal favorites of mine from this bundle:
- A Short Hike (A cozy 3D exploration game with Breath of the Wild climbing mechanics)
- EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK (Hard to describe but it's basically a minigame collection fever dream primarily about trauma and depression? Also highly recommend checking out Nathalie's itch page, not only for their other games but because the pages themselves are some excellent CSS crimes.)
- Wandersong (Delightful musical platform adventure that gave me strong Paper Mario vibes despite not having any combat. An extremely silly game, but one that also gets very Real at times.)
- Lucah: Born of a Dream (Extremely sick action game with a striking art style and a narrative all about queer religious trauma. There's a recently released sequel Death of a Wish that I still need to check out.)
- ZeroRanger (Fantastic shmup from the creators of my 2023 GOTY Void Stranger. Had a great time with it even as a total shmup noob.)
- A Monster's Expedition (Extremely elegant open-world puzzle game that gets an incredible amount of depth out of its seemingly barebones mechanics. Essential game for all of the sokoban sickos out there.)
- EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER: BOUND BY ASH (The second game in the EMF series of queer fash-bashing meat-mech VNs/brawlers. Huge improvement over the first game combat-wise and the writing is as sharp as ever.)
- Slimes (An RPG about a pair of party members who despise one another. Equal parts dark—depression, suicide, bigotry, and religious fascism abound—and compelling.)
For my part, I'm looking forward to checking out Spare Parts, Fatum Betula, Coffee Talk, An Outcry, BOSSGAME: The Final Boss is My Heart, com__et, and Elephantasy: Flipside.
